choad /chohd/ n.
Synonym for `penis' used in _alt.tasteless_ and
popularized by the denizens thereof. They say: "We think maybe
it's from Middle English but we're all too damned lazy to check
the OED." [I'm not. It isn't. --ESR] This term is alleged to have
been inherited through 1960s underground comics, and to have been
recently sighted in the Beavis and Butthead cartoons. Speakers of
the Hindi, Bengali and Gujarati languages have confirmed that
`choad' is in fact an Indian vernacular word equivalent to
`fuck'; it is therefore likely to have entered English slang via
the British Raj.
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choke v.
1. [common] To reject input, often ungracefully. "NULs make
System V's lpr(1) choke." "I tried building an EMACS binary to use X, but cpp(1) choked on all those
#defines." See barf,
gag, vi. 2.
[MIT] More generally, to fail at any endeavor, but with some
flair or bravado; the popular definition is "to snatch defeat
from the jaws of victory."
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chomp vi.
1. To lose; specifically, to chew
on something of which more was bitten off than one can. Probably
related to gnashing of teeth. 2. To bite the bag; See bagbiter.
A hand gesture commonly accompanies this. To perform it, hold
the four fingers together and place the thumb against their tips.
Now open and close your hand rapidly to suggest a biting action
(much like what Pac-Man does in the classic video game, though
this pantomime seems to predate that). The gesture alone means
`chomp chomp' (see "Verb
Doubling" in the "Jargon Construction" section of
the Prependices). The hand may be pointed at the object of
complaint, and for real emphasis you can use both hands at once.
Doing this to a person is equivalent to saying "You chomper!" If
you point the gesture at yourself, it is a humble but humorous
admission of some failure. You might do this if someone told you
that a program you had written had failed in some surprising way
and you felt dumb for not having anticipated it.
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chomper n.
Someone or something that is chomping; a loser. See loser, bagbiter, chomp.